Retailers, vendors taking systems integrators seriously to move beyond mass-market RFID mandates

By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor

To date, the RFID requirements issued by a handful of mass-market retailers’ have been met primarily via ‘slap and ship,’ smacking a tag on a box and calling it ‘RFID Compliant.’ But thanks to the release of the EPC/Global Gen 2 RFID standard and increasing availability of interoperable RFID components, that’s starting to change.